Delegated Administration Quick Start

Delegated Administration Quick Start

Topic 50160 / Updated: 28-May-2010

Applies To:

Websense Web Filter 7.5 Websense Web Security 7.5

Delegated administration is a powerful tool for distributing filtering and reporting responsibilities across an organization.

One or more Super Administrators can grant policy management privileges, reporting rights, or both to delegated administrators, who can then manage or report on Internet usage for specific clients (users, groups, computers, or networks). Super Administrators can also:

Create a set of master filtering restrictions that limit the filtering access that delegated administrators can provide.

Send copies of policies and filters that they have created to delegated administrators, who can use these policies as templates for creating policies and filters to apply to their clients.

All of this is accomplished through the use of roles, which group related clients with the administrators responsible for managing and reporting on their Internet usage. For example, a school district might create Staff, Teachers, and Elementary Students roles, and then assign one or more administrators to each.

To start using delegated administration:

1.	Configure directory service settings: Make sure that Websense software can communicate with your directory service so that you can add user, group, and domain (OU) clients in TRITON - Web Security.

2.	Configure administrator logon directory settings: Specify which directory server is used to authenticate administrative logons.

3.	Customize the Default category and protocol filters: Establish a filtering baseline for your organization.

4.	Edit the Filter Lock: Create basic category and protocol filtering restrictions that will apply to all delegated administrators.

5.	Create Websense user accounts: Establish local accounts for any administrators who will not log on using their network logons.

6.	Create delegated administration roles: Define which administrators will manage policies, run reports, or both for which groups of clients.

7.	Train delegated administrators: Make sure that new administrators know how to perform their tasks.

This Quick Start guide provides the basic information needed to get started with delegated administration. Complete and comprehensive instructions are available from the TRITON - Web Security Help, available in HTML or PDF format from the Help menu in TRITON - Web Security, or from the Websense Technical Library.

Delegated Administration Quick Start